“Every time there’s a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.” – Mike Tyson, professional boxer, referring to David Walker’s book, An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World Read more
I’ve got some great new ARCs – first up this week, Tiger Shrimp Tango by Tim Dorsey: Determined to save a damsel in distress, the Sunshine State’s favorite serial killer and encyclopedia of Florida lore Serge Storms dances a tango of death and mayhem in this funny and dementedly entertaining crime caper from Tim Dorsey, author of the New York Times bestseller The Riptide,… Read more
Due to my background in Equity-eligible shows and a little movie work, I was keen to learn about auditioning from a casting director’s point of view. So often, performers are left in the dark about those tips for success that go beyond mere etiquette. Could Jen Rudin provide the resources to ace your next audition? As a former casting director… Read more
A friend alerted me to this one, which was a 99-cent Kindle deal. Some of the Best From Tor.com, 2013 Edition: A Tor.Com Original has some great stuff! We are thrilled to announce the 2013 edition of Some of the Best from Tor.com, an anthology of twenty-one of our favorite stories, selected from the sixty-plus stories we published this year. This anthology… Read more
“Easy reading is damn hard writing.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist I do a fair amount of writing and I agree so strongly with this. Writing something smooth and easy to read? Not as easy as it looks. Read more
I was fortunate enough to meet Richard Montanari, author of The Echo Man a few years ago at a book club meeting. What a great event! Not only did we get to read a great book that month (The Rosary Girls) we got to talk with the author about it! I am really looking forward to this new one: It is… Read more
I hope you tweeted your special travel photo in the Paris Letters photo contest. If you haven’t, you’ve still got time and to inspire you, today we’ve got Christine’s review of Paris Letters: Ah, Paris. While memoirist Janice MacLeod is a seasoned traveler, she’s still enchanted by The City of Light. Paris Letters is her love affair documented through pen and… Read more
Okay, time to let the authors do the work…today I’ve got a guest post from Rudy Mazzocchi, entrepreneur and author of Storytelling: The Indispensable Art of Entrepreneurism. Mazzocchi established a career buying, building and selling multi-million dollar companies, and he has taken that experience and applied it to his fiction. In Storytelling, Mazzocchi “takes you on a journey which reveals how the development,… Read more
Check back later this week for a review of Paris Letters by Janice McLeod – in the meantime, check out this contest – you could win a one-of-a-kind painting based on your special travel photo! Check this out: Read more
Sometimes, I read a book and I think, “this would make a great movie!” Sometimes, I don’t want to see the movie, because I know that film and CGI will never match the story in my head. In the case of Labor Day by Joyce Maynard, I’m not sure I want to see the movie, because I don’t think Hollywood will get it… Read more